February 2012
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“Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of...”
– Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, on brainstorming and group thinking via The New Yorker
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“Don’t forget you’re alive. ‘Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and...”
– Joe Strummer
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“I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM and...”
– Why great companies decline according to Steve Jobs — they stop focusing on the product, innovation & user experience, and obsess over profits instead
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“Had the most wonderful conversation with a stranger on the subway coming home...”
– New Facebook post
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Why Storify For iPad Is Underhyped
What if there was an app that allowed you to hand a tablet to someone, anyone, and say to them, “Tell me a story”?
This app would need to be intuitive, easy-to-use and perhaps most of all help us figure out that age-old question: where to begin.
Storify has done this, and it’s unleashed the power of the social Web to be characters, quotes and turning points in those stories....
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Anonymous asked: What has been the most interesting find in your "Journey into Genealogy"?
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Most Epic XBOX 360 LIVE NHL 12 Game Ever
Just finished playing the most amazing game of NHL 12 against someone online. I won 7-6 in regulation after trailing basically the whole game including 6-4 late in the third period.
The craziest part: Trailing a goal with less than a minute to play, I pulled my goalie. I (Buffalo, of course) made three big defensive plays to prevent Detroit from clearing the puck down the ice, and was able to...
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Why I Decided To Become A Journalist
Earlier today on Twitter, a former colleague Niel Bekker of The Huffington Post asked a simple question, “Why did you decide to become a journalist?”
My answer was simple: 9/11. I promised to expand on it later in more than 140 characters. Here’s my explanation, an excerpt from a chapter I wrote in ”The Big Book of Social Media.”
“On September 11th, 2001, the...
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I was just thinking...
There’s no greater feeling than “click”.. It all makes sense now.. When thoughts fit together like puzzle pieces.. The ‘Aha!’ moment.
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“There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be...”
– Steve Jobs from his biography by Walter Isaacson
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Controversial new Twitter policy for Sky News
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Mark Zuckerberg's 6 Ingredients For Success
Success = ambition + vision + execution + persistence + luck + timing; the first 4 things you can control and the last 2 you cannot. [SOURCE: TechCrunch]
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Inside Breaking News: 'Thanks for melting our... →
Well done, Breaking News!
via breakingblog:
@BreakingNews Thanks for melting our servers, ya jerks. ^JK
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) February 2, 2012
The Atlantic jokingly sent us this tweet today after we sent out their story on the Susan G. Komen foundation. Over the last few months, we’ve noticed that we’re sending…
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